Talk all you want about riveting, complex storylines and deep strategic experiences when many of us play video games we’re channeling our inner child. Not the curious, sensitive inner child looking on a new world with joy, but the one who ran around for hours with a stick playing space marine or constructed huge forts from legos.

It seems that simply exploring a digital recreation of post-apocalyptic America wasn’t enough for some Fallout fans though, because last month at an abandoned air defense base outside of Leningrad over three hundred Russian Fallout fans got together for a live action roleplaying game based on Fallout 2. The amount of effort some of them put into creating their own costumes and equipment is impressive, especially those who are decked out in full power armor.

While of course it would have been far more appropriate to locate the event much closer to Chernobyl, I’m guessing that for those involved their desire for accuracy and realism stopped just short of high levels of radiation exposure, though the guy dressed as a ghoul might have been okay with it.